Rumor Mill: Downloadable Games for Vita 40 Percent Cheaper than Packaged Ones

A comment from a Sony spokesperson, made to a website which focuses on cheaper video games, suggests that buying downloadable games for the upcoming PlayStation Vita handheld might be significantly cheaper than buying retail packages.

The Sony representative said that packaged games will cost at the most 40 dollars or Euros in stores while those who log into the PlayStation Network to get the same content could end up paying just 23 dollars or Euros.

Sony might choose to make digital games cheaper in order to make sure that players are not too concerned by the fact that proprietary memory cards for the device will cost more than initially anticipated.

Sony has already said that video games will get digital version on the PSN at the same time as the retail versions appear in stores, although some big releases might get an exception.

The Vita arrives on December 17 in Japan and more than two months later in Europe and North America.